Lake of Banyoles

Lake of Banyoles is a characteristic lake situated in the comarca Pla de l'Estany, Province of Girona, in northeastern Catalonia, Spain. It is named after the close-by town of Banyoles, to which it has a place altogether. On the western shore it outskirts with the town of Porqueres. The lake is roughly 2,100 m by 750 m with a normal profundity of 15 m that in a few gets down to 46.4 meters. It is situated in a characteristic structural misery. By and by Lake Banyoles is the biggest normal lake in Catalonia. Lake Sils, found 33 km further south, was some time ago the biggest lake in the zone until the point that it was depleted in 1851.

This lake ended up popular as the paddling area for the Barcelona Olympics 1992 and the World Rowing Championships in 2004. It is additionally a famous preparing area for some outside rowers, especially English rowers. It was additionally the site for the 1991 Junior World Rowing Championships. There are both local and presented angle species in the lake, similar to carp, gardi, bavosa de riu, sunfish, tench, dark bass and eel. It is realized that different fishes like pike, bullhead catfish peix gat and goldfish were presented in the nineteenth century, however no examples of those species have been found in ongoing reviews in the lake.